STAND. COM. REP. NO.  285

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 558

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 558 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE REPEAL OF SECTION 325-15, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the obsolete statutory requirement that United States citizens and nationals returning to Hawaii after at least five years residence abroad in a region with a high rate of communicable disease submit to a medical examination to screen for tuberculosis.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 558 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair